Tenter clip



May 21, 1924. A 1,495,216

R. P.'WNSCR TENTER CLIP Filed May 16. 1923 [l www. MIM lll l 2903er? f? Win/sar Patented May 27, i924,

UNITED sr `TES PATENT OFFICE- ROBERT r. wINsoR', oF AUBURN, RHODE rsLA1\`-n`v`ass1c+nort,rowrnsoaa JERAULD MANUFACTURING co., or Paovrnnncrz, RHODE' rsnAnn, a conrogaa'rronor MAINE.

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To all whom t concern:

Beit known that I, ROBERT P. WiNsoR,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at Auburn, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tenter Clips, of which the following 'is aspecification.`

This invention relates to an improved construction of cloth clamp or tentering clip, and has for its object to provide a specially-constructed controller member for the swinging jaw of the clip, the same having an elongated, narrow downwardly-extending arm or finger'with a relatively thin feeling edge for engaging the fabric, whereby this controller is adapted to drop immediately upon reaching the edge of the fabric, between the edge and the loose threads which may be looped along its edge as is the case in the tentering of ginghams and like fabrics.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, as will be more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a tentering clip showing my improved controller member mounted therein with its feeling edge engaging the surface of the fabric to be engaged.

Figure 2 is the same as Figure 1 but showing the downwardly-extending arm of the controller as having dropped at the edge of the fabric between the fabric and the thread loop along its edge.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of my improved controller member.

Figure 4 is a view illustrating a fragmental portion of gingham fabric showing the loose thread as extending along the edge thereof.

In the weaving of such fabrics as ginghams where stripes of different colors are woven into the goods by different colored threads, when each shuttle carrying its thread of dierent color is called out of action its thread is led loosely along the selvage of the fabric until this shuttle is again called into action to lay the threads in the next stripe of the same color.

When this fabric with its loose edge threads is being passed through a tentering Application filed May 16, 1923, Serial No. 639,325.

machine these loose threads are found to interfere with the normal? action of a tenteringclip-which has a controller withthe usual broad feeling surface,as such a controller usually` catches' "on one ofthese threads and prevents the gripping'jawfrom engaging the selvage at' the desired depth, that is, in `some cases the clip ymay be' permitted to engage thewfabric'as the proper depth, while in other cases the fabric is gripped too closely' to the edge, thus causing ununiformity in the depth of grip; and in still other instances the jaw may be held open so long by these loose threads that the fabric will be entirely pulled away from'the jaw before it is permitted to close causing what is known as misclips which effect is quite undesirable as the goods are thus damaged. i

By the use of my improved construction of clip these loose threads on the edge of the fabric will not interfere with the proper closing of the swinging jaw permitting the different clips to grip the fabric uniformlyz- With reference to the drawings, 10 designates the body of a clip having a fixed jaw 11 and a swinging aw 12 -pivotally mounted at 13 in the supporting arms 11i only one of which is shown.

In this clip member, I have mounted a controller member 15 which is pivoted at 16 and slotted at 17 to receive a roller 18 in the arm 19 of the swinging jaw, and this controller is provided with an elongated, narrow, downwardly-extending arm or` iinger 20 which is provided with a relatively thin or pointed feeling end 21 which rides along the surface of the cloth 23, whereby as the cloth is drawn outwardly as it enters the tentering machine this feeling end 21 of the arm 20 upon coming to the selvage edge 22 of the fabric will immediately drop between this edge and the loose threads 24 extending along the edge of the fabric thereby permitting the pivot arm 12 to swing into position to engage the cloth exactly at the proper distance from its edge and so effectually prevent mis-clips and damage to the goods.

The controller arm 20 may be formed in hook-shape or in any other desired shape the same being pointed or reduced an provided with a thin or narrow en aging or feeling end which is adapte to work its way down between the loose edge` threads and the edge of the fabric, said arm being of a length to extend down between the loose threads and the fabric edge, a distance sufficient to permit the engaging jaw l2 it controls, to drop and bite the fabric.

My improved construction of controller member is extremely simple and practical and is effective in its operation inasmuch as by its use the swinging jaws of all of the clips of a tentering machine are caused to grip the fabric at a uniform distance from its edge and are not affected' by' the loose threads which `are formed along the edge of such fabrics as ginghams land the like.

The foregoing description is directed solely towards the construction illustrated, but I desire it to be understood that I reserve the privilege of resorting to allthe mechanical changes to which the device is sus ceptible, the invention being delined and limited only by the terms of the appended claims.

.I claim:

l. A tenter clip having a iixe'd jaw, a swinging jaw, and a controller for said swinging jaw having a feeler finger with a feeling ,end relatively narrow in a plane transverse to the edge of the fabric, whereby said end is adapted to drop between the fabric and a loose thread looped along its edge.

2 A tenter clip having a iXed jaw, a swinging jaw, 'and a controller carried by said swinging jaw, the feeling portion of said controller being in hook shape and having a work-engaging end thin in its dimension at right angles to the edge of the work whereb)r it is adapted to drop between the work and a loose thread looped along its l edge.

3. A tenter clip having a fixed jaw, a' swinging jaw, and a controller for said swinging jaw having an elongated narrow downwardlyextending linger with a feeling end, relatively thin in a plane transverse to the edge of the fabric whereby this end is adapted to drop between the edge of the fabric and a thread loosely looped along the edge thereof.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature.

ROBERT P. WINSOR. 

